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tonight on "nightline." they came from similar backgrounds, united by the two women in their lives, but they ended up worlds apart. an envelonfl superstar. the murder case that captivated america and the surprising tim tebow connection. power wife, she made the choice to stand by herman through better and worse, through public scandals and humiliation. what's in it for anthony weiner's wife, and who is human a ab dean. and william and kate. keep it here, america,

from new york city, this is "nightline" with terry moran. >> hello, thanks for joining us. few have fallen as far or as hard as former nfl star aaron hernandez, the hands that caught so many touchdown passes in handcuffs today as he was led into court, charged with the brutal murder of his friend, odin lloyd. how did two men from such different worlds even meet and how are they united by the two women in their lives? john trippen brings the report for the series crime and punishment. >> reporter: aaron hernandez practicing with his former team, the new england patriots. odin lloyd practicing with semi pro boston bandits. similar plays, similar moves.

but on game day, hernandez and the patriots were cheered on at gillette stadium by almost 70,000 fans. the bandits. >> you get maybe 200, you got a big, big game. hopefully you get 300. >> biggest amount in the stands, 300 people. >> i would say. >> reporter: they were two men from two vastly different universes. hernandez signed a mouth watering contract worth $40 million. odin lloyd. >> these guys here, how much do they make per game? >> none. for love of the game. >> don't make any money? >> don't make any money. >> reporter: according to lloyd's coach, somehow hernandez and lloyd had an unlikely relationship, united by the women in their lives. this is hernandez's fiance escorted from court by the defense team. lloyd dated her sister. friends say the two often would hang out, sometimes even talk football. prosecutors say something went

wrong, shifting their bond from cordial to fatal. >> that breaking news, an arrest warrant has been issued this morning for aaron hernandez. >> reporter: the whole world was watching as the 23-year-old former tight end was charged with murder, allegedly orchestrating the execution style killing of his friend. how did it all go so spectacularly wrong? aaron hernandez was raised in a marginal neighborhood in bristol, connecticut and had his share of heartache. >> father died when he was 16. that was very, very tough for him at the age that it happened. had a little bit of a tough upbringing, both because of that and before that. >> reporter: but hernandez had one gift that made everything better. >> football was something that he really loved. i think it gave him a little bit of a reprieve from some of the other everyday challenges of life. when he was around football, he could forget. >> reporter: even in high school, it was clear he had an unusual talent. he started to get calls from

colleges, eventually recruited by university of florida, a bright future stretched before him, if he could only keep his demons at bay. >> he himself said he had a history of getting into trouble. >> reporter: before he played a single game, his career was almost side lined forever. >> there are reports that aaron hernandez had an altercation at a bar called the swamp. >> reporter: a police report from the 2007 incident surfaced recently. hernandez got into a fight with the bar manager over two drinks hernandez maintained he hadn't ordered. guess who tried to come to his aid? according to the police report, squeaky clean college teammate tim tebow offered to pay for the drinks. instead, hernandez punched the manager so hard his ear drum burst. >> he could have been kicked off the team and was. >> reporter: he was never charged with the assault. odin lloyd also excelled in

football but didn't get the same treatment by the coach. >> did he not apply himself? >> reporter: his teammate daryl hodge says lloyd never went to college, he drifted into semi pro-football and odd jobs including a recent one as landscaper. >> did he have dreams of playing in the nfl? >> you felt realistic with yourself. >> reporter: at university of florida, hernandez was excelling on the field, 111 receptions, 12 touchdowns. but off the field, there were rumors. take a look at this personality test from a scouting report obtained by "the wall street journal." it said hernandez enjoyed, quote, living on the edge of acceptable behavior, and caution that it could become a problem for his team. he was a major talent, but as he approached the nfl draft in 2010, real questions were being raised. >> how did hernandez's past impact his draft stock? >> significantly.

this was a player most would agree had first round talent, maybe second round talent, to the fourth round. >> reporter: he was still one of the oh, so lucky few, chosen by the new england patriots to play in the nfl. he seemed to have it all, including a relationship with a beautiful girl he met in high school. that's how odin lloyd and hernandez met. he was dating her sister. >> two friends, dating the sisters, you see each other casually, barbeque, family having a cookout, you see each other on the pass by. that's what we thought it was. >> reporter: no matter how casually it started, friends say lloyd and hernandez met up and hung out, even when the women weren't around. they also shared a common upbringing, growing up in poor, tough neighborhoods. >> i think that's why it was an easy match for both of them to rise and not be in situation of

jail or incarceration was credit to both of them. >> reporter: that neighborhood was a reality lloyd had to deal with every day, with no money for a car, he was bike 20 miles to bandits games. >> you know he is dedicated, see him coming around the corner with his shoulder pads and helmet on the stairwell. >> reporter: there were times this talented linebacker couldn't afford a uniform. >> he was wearing a jersey with somebody else's name? >> couple games, yes. >> did you wonder why he was hanging out with a pro nfl player? >> no, some guys was envious of that, who wouldn't want to. >> reporter: somehow the relationship was about to become unravelled. they were at a nightclub when a dispute broke out. >> prosecutors say there was some kind of argument the friday night before, that hernandez was upset that lloyd was talking to a group of people.

did he discuss that with you? >> he said they went out friday, had a good time. didn't present anything about any argument or anything like that. >> i don't think he thought anything was wrong, i don't think he felt it was a fight. >> reporter: a day later, lloyd surprised teammates by showing up for practice without his bicycle. >> i see a black suv pull up, looking at who's in the car. i see him. odin, whose car is that. he said you know. >> reporter: daryl hodge, his friend and teammate saw him the last time sunday night. >> you were with him hours before he was murdered. >> yeah. >> what did you do. >> hang out, typical sunday. >> what time did you go out? >> he dropped me off, had a text from the manager saying he had work the next day. he had to make the decision to go home. he said all right, i am going home. >> reporter: prosecutors say he got in the car with hernandez at 2:30 in the morning. if he had work the next day,

what was he doing? >> i don't know. that's the question. >> reporter: prosecutors haven't publicly discussed motive, but documents they release reveal two points they're investigating further. his fiance, jenkins, told police she suspected lloyd was a marijuana dealer. police recovered in a safe in hernandez's house a scale. police say the kind used to weigh drugs. but lloyd's coach is adamant, lloyd had nothing to do with drug. >> he wasn't a drug dealer. you a drug dealer, you ain't riding a bike to practice. >> reporter: they say he has alleged involvement in a 2012 drive-by shooting in boston that left two people dead. could lloyd be dead because he knew details about the shooting? >> i don't know. odin lloyd, he is not a gang banker. he is petrified of guns. that's not the individual i know. >> reporter: in the coming weeks and months, we'll find out whether there was a lloyd no one

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on tv shows, wives of politicians tend to have a certain look about them, glamorous, with attitude and smile. while there's a scandal, the real life politicians put them to shane. the latest with anthony weiner, his wife faces public test of character and judgment for her choices. has she gone from victim to enabler? here is abc's lindsey davis. >> reporter: anthony weiner was back on message today. his wife nowhere in sight. >> people talk on the street, don't want to talk about my past, want to talk about their future. >> reporter: out of sight, out of mind when it comes to the forbearance and forgiveness.

>> these things are behind me now. >> reporter: the man could be described as a serial sexter isn't getting the attention huma abedin is as she played out the notion of stand your man yesterday. >> i am very nervous. >> reporter: her decision to speak publicly, perhaps the only shot at saving her husband's against the odds come back. >> it took a lot of work and a whole lot of therapy to get to a place where i could forgive anthony, but i made the decision that it was worth staying in this marriage. that was a decision i made for me, for our son, and for our family. >> reporter: her defense of her husband inadvertently made her a lightning rod for criticism many thought would be reserved for weiner. >> he needs to see judge judy. >> reporter: the attitude to describe her is private, she was a success as hillary clinton's

right hand woman when she ran for president, then again at the state department. this group interview is one of the few times she has spoken on camera. >> so many ways i am the junior member of hillary on this stage. but i feel my opinion counts and matters. >> reporter: that's been her trademark, behind the scenes power player. until yesterday. >> anthony made some horrible mistakes, but i do strongly believe it is between us and our marriage. >> reporter: her mood seems out of character for the woman that's largely remained in the shadows. >> the guy has behaved so badly, there's nothing for a wife really to do. >> reporter: she admitted in the past to seeking relationship advice from long time friend and boss hillary clinton. >> i look up to her the way i look to my mom. i get advice for her, she's constantly a support system for me.

>> reporter: she appears to have taken a page out of hillary's book, not just standing by herman, raising thousands of dollars behind the scenes to get him elected mayor of new york city. >> we love this city. no one will work harder to make it better than anthony. >> i will fight for you every single day. >> reporter: right now, it seems she's doing the fighting for him. >> we are moving forward. >> reporter: despite the new texts released monday, allegedly between a 22-year-old woman and weiner, would was using the handle carlos danger. at a campaign today where she was not present, she was still the topic of discussion. >> she forgives him, you know, hey, why not us. >> reporter: but this may have been her only option to save her husband's political career. >> the fact that she continues to vouch for him, it does raise questions about her judgment and why she thinks this is okay. >> reporter: once again, the discussion in the weiner household may be similar to households around the country.

when is tweeting cheating in. >> i've had women caught this way, i've had men caught this way. it's becoming very prevalent. >> reporter: call it cheating 2.0. married man or woman sparking flirtation with a stranger, or rekindling a flame on facebook could be playing with fire. should she be singled out for standing with her man? >> i don't think any of us can know why huma is making the choice she's making today. i think there's an automatic tendency to want your husband to be successful, to want to preserve your marriage, to want to protect the father of your child, and in this case very clear political ambition. but it is highly problematic because what she's telling us is trust a liar. >> reporter: today, weiner confirmed he is staying in the race, despite calls for him to

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in britain, the royal baby name is revealed in the sky. one man finds himself up close and personal with a fellow traveler, and in the gulf of mexico, workers fight to regain control of a burning gas well. all tonight's feed frenzy. gas fire. a natural gas well in the gulf of mexico continues to burn after a blowout tuesday forced evacuation of dozens of workers. the extent of the damage to the site is unknown. seems only natural gas is leaking. the company that owns and operates the rig says they're working with efforts to regain control of the natural gas well,

and they stress that this is nowhere near as damaging as the bp oil spill in 2010. that's comforting. meet prince george, the most famous unnamed baby in the world for two days, in a press release issued from kensington palace, the duke and duchess reveal the name of the youngest royal family member, george alexander louis. george had been in the lead with major betting agencies. six previous british kings were named george. sleep mates, the look on this passenger's face is priceless after he finds his neighbor slouching, slouching, and completely asleep across his lap. this lady takes the cake when it comes to invading personal space. her face plant gives n